Its crazy how much you can learn if you arent forced to learn it

Green and blue flames look like they're straight out of an anime, and the white flame looks paranormal

Also worth mentioning that these flames are nearly invisible in the daylight. Nitromethane is used as race fuel in high horsepower cars like Top Fuel dragsters. There are videos out there of drivers/engineers/pit crew members igniting their clothes and it's almost impossible to tell that they're on fire. Scary stuff.

This is a huge part of safety in racing! Fires can start in the pits during refueling and in bright light the flames are almost invisible and burn hotter than gasoline. It's crazy.

“Don’t play with fire, kids” Nigel: “hey look at this cool white flame”

"don't play with fire!" - guy who plays with fire

I worked at a petrochemical company. Every regulations test we took had at least on question asking what methane burns like- colorless, smokeless. I will remember that forever

I've definitely heard of blue and maybe green flames before, but I've never even heard of a white flame before, much less ever seen one!! How amazing!!

This is precisely why race car fires can be so dangerous when the cars are using methanol or nitrometh because the fire is basically invisible (Especially during daylight). This is where you will see those "meme" clips of a race car driver flopping around or rolling around on the ground trying to put out a fire and everyone thinks they look crazy because they don't see any flames - but the driver feels the heat and knows something is wrong.

Doing flame tests was one of my favourite parts of chem lab. Watching different metals burning with different colours felt like magic.

Short, Precise and upto the point 👍🏻

I remember having this experiment way back in my freshman year in college. It's cool to see those green and blue flames upclose

If you do sodium in a room lit with sodium light, you get a weird black flame. because everything is either emitting or absorbing at the 589nm D lines.

Sodium absorbs the same frequency of light that it emits, so burn sodium salts under a low-pressure sodium lamp, and the flames turn black Edit: believe it or not I learned this from a Google, instead of a KZfaq video

My grandfather used to have different pipes that he put into cut up water hoses and threw them into the fire pit when we went camping. It was the cool blue, red green yellow effect. Was my favorite thing growing up. The man knew how to entertain.

I had done this experiment on lab when I was in school but procedure was a little bit complex and I couldn't distinguished the color difference because it's was too faint. I wish everyone has a teacher like you who made it very fascinating and easy.

Fun fact, nitromethane is used in dragsters because it carries its own oxygen which means more of it can be combusted at once. Edit: I feel like I should clarify something. It still needs external air to combust, but at a weight ratio of 1.7:1kg instead of the 20:1kg ratio of air to gasoline used in regular cars

Back when I did "nitro" RC cars, I sometimes had contaminated fuel and would burn it off and always loved the flame colour. It burnt a little different since about 80% of the fuel was methanol and the rest was nitromethane and oil. But it still looked awesome and almost otherworldly.

Dude, I really love your vids, always gives me knowledge than any other schools, definetly a sub for you my friend.

That’s crazy! Those flames look awesome!

We were having a bonfire getting rid of old junk one year, and I threw in some old Christmas wrapping paper -- it was hypnotic how colourful the flames turned out.

That flame looks epic blasting out of a dragsters exhaust ripping down the quarter mile too. 🏎️ 🔥

This young man is great. His content is right up my alley and it's fun to watch him 😆 He knows quite a lot of shiz!

Ah takes me back to my highschool chemistry lab days. I loved throwing different salts like barium chloride on the bunsen burner just to see it burst into a different colour flame. Kinda felt like a wizard doing that back then 😂

In high school chemistry we got to play with colored fire one day. It was really cool. If I actually tried and studied in that class I'm still not sure I would have been able to pass it but some of the labs and thought experiments were really interesting to me. Worth it.

I loved this experiment back in high-school!

Even crazier thing is that pure methanol burns with (almost) invisible flame. And because it was and still is used as a racing fuel, it would seem that the pit crew are faking the burn but in fact it really has ignited and needs to be neutralized ASAP.

Him: **Burns the whole lab** Also him: *"It's really interesting. What I find fun about it is-"*

About 10 years ago, I bought a set of birthday candles that make flames of various colors. Blue, red, green, white, orange, & a very yellow-yellow, IIRC. They still work as of my birthday last month (I always let them cool completely, then wash & dry the cake-ends carefully before putting them away; we reuse them over the years). My local grocery store randomly had them in a vendor aisle display. Y'all can probably search for some online. They're really cool! 😎

This was probably the best frame I've ever seen of a matchbox

That’s surprising. When Top Fuel nitromethane dragsters burn fuel, you’ll see a yellow or occasionally a green flame just before the engines blow up. I did not at all expect a grey flame.

Being an engine nut, I freaking love Nitromethane. It's oxygen carrying properties, it's volitility, and it's beautiful flame.

When I used to go to nitro altered drag races with my dad as a kid, I always loved seeing the thick white/grey flames come out of the exhausts. My dad taught me about chemical alterations to flame colors in terms a 5 year old could understand, Thanks dad.

My first time seeing this fire color. Amazing!

That was f'n awesome, dude!

I'm SOOOOOO freaking glad that I had the most awesome chemistry teacher. She made sure to always be friendly and fun in her classes and everybody loves her. I'll never forget the day she burned a bunch of stuff to show the different colors of the flames and about how she used Goku transforming into a super-sayan to explain how light works.

“dont play with fire” i’ll do whatever the fuck i want if it looks like that

Enchantment: Soul flame Effect: Burns spirits

Cinematography game on point 👌

When I went camping in middle school, we had a big bonfire in the middle where we just toss anything that should be good for fuel. There was a log which still had its tree sap and the fire that was burning turned apple green.

Ooooo pyro fun! I like the purple flames a lot, can’t remember what causes them… but the almost colourless flame is pretty awesome!

Those fires are extremely dangerous as you can't actually see the flame itself in normal light. In nascar, years back one of the put crew got lit up by it and nobody knew what was going on

As a firefighter, I feel this man is a potential danger to society As a science geek, I just love it 😄

Blue, green and white flames look so cool

Imagine knowing how to synthesize these chemicals and going back in time to live as a cool alchemist

Could you do a full video on different fire colours, with more examples than green, blue, and (the totally awesome) white? I’ve always found different colours of fire fascinating.

You'll be remembered among all the chemistry students . Huge respect for you. ❤

Standing next to an engine running on nitro-methanol is also one of the most unreal experiences! You feel each exhaust pulse right through your chest!

It's so interesting that we're very used to different colors of solids, liquids, gasses, & lights… but making different colored flames still always seems a little bit unreal and strange when you see them. I wonder if it's because we think of "fire" as an object rather than as a state that can be changed, or if it's that the color spectrum of light different flames give off is something that's almost always artificial rather than natural (like how certain LED lights can mess with how real/fake something looks based on how well/poorly it mimics natural light). Cool stuff as always!

THIS IS SO COOL. And the white flame is absolutely gorgeous!! The kind of top-tier content that I signed up for in this awesome channel. 10/10 fun, educational. Thank you for what u do

This bit of knowledge is lit.

I used to CRY because I hated physics and chemistry so much in highschool. I felt so anxious anytime I had a physics lesson and I had the worst grades. Somehow, even for me who hates chemistry, you make it seem interesting and I watch a lot of your content.

Can confirm it's real! We did stuff like this in chem lab last semester. It was a pain in the ass to have to describe the colors in detail when most of them were variants of yellow, orange, or red tho. But some were really cool colors!

Cool. That would be an incredible decorative piece in a wedding where you have a black and white theme with flowers, food, furniture, and a giant torch burning this fire to illuminate it where only the bride and groom appear to be in color. 😄

In my graduation exam, i measured some heavy metal solutions in flame-AAS-spectroscopy. It was some lead salt which made a bright white flame. It was like nitromethanol, but brighter and more opaque, almost like a flame of milk.

My middle school teacher presented this to us and I loved it. She also had a red flame which was from Lithium Chloride or Strontium Chloride.

It’s crazy how this is one of the accidental non short videos that made you more money than the short version would have made

That methanol flame looks like a whisp Honestly so mesmerizing to watch I could watch that all day

Thats honestly fire lowkey

I liked the Boric Acid & Methanol green fire.

that fire spark tho before the match is actually lit is just-

I remember doing a project in chemistry class where we were testing different things to see what color they would burn & I was so amazed because that was the first time I've ever seen different colored flames other than the orange we are used to seeing

In college we had a lab that taught us how to make flames in ever color of the rainbow. However someone didn't clean the equipment properly and our first experiment resulted in a color changing rainbow flame 😅

Neat, but DAMN! The fumes must be terribly toxic.

This used to be common knowledge back in the nitro RC era. Video cameras were too expensive and didn't work in the dark back then. Antifreeze also burns with an invisible (and very hot) flame under the right conditions. A good mechanic knows to be very careful popping the hood of a disabled/crashed vehicle; you could reach or stick your face into a fire without knowing it.

0:58 fire from madness combat :O

Used to have a lighter that held a stone in front of flame ,not sure what the stone was made of, that produced a pink flame

1:06 fire in 1950 be like

I'm doing a flame test in chemistry class next week, so good timing.

Ah yes I remember back in the 70's watching race car drivers flopping about trying to put out fires that the cameras of that era could not see.

Dang Lil B was really onto something with that blue flame/green flame/ white flame mixtape series

DUDE THAT'S AWESOME!

Lithium gives off a pretty pink. We had several salts burning in my high school chemistry class once (copper, aluminum, lithium, and a few others) all giving off different colors. My teacher was spraying them with (I believe) Methanol to keep the fire going. The lithium flame was his favorite: *sprays each salt flame across the bench* "Not my favorite, not my favorite, not my favorite, FAVORITE!" *sprays lithium fire a bunch, making a huge tall pink flame*

Itachi: *"ILL TAKE THE ENTIRE STOCK"*

Could you share the solution for the green flame? I'd like to see if it'd work in a zippo as lighter fluid

You forgot about invisible fire.

One of my favorites experiments I've made I forgot the detailed process of it but I remember doing an experiment where if you had the correct elements and high enough heat you could get a PURPLE FLAME to make it better we took a rotating platform, placed a metal mesh trash bin with the experiment inside of it and started spinning it... The airflow through the holes of the mesh trash bin rotating made the flame rise up creating a PURPLE TORNADO FLAME EFFECT that looked AMAZING!

Nile is doing all the things our mothers told us NOT to do and I love him for it.

Christopher Nolan would love this.

When you set your fire to dark mode

NileRed: "that has almost no color" Me, a physicist, seeing white: * visible confusion *

0:21 Ash Crimson flames 0:30 Dabi flames 0:53 Holy Spirit flames

That reminds me of the Black Flame Candle from Hocus Pocus! 😮 super cool!

How does it look with lights on?

That burning nitromethane (with methanol) looks like a ghost in a horror movie.

You learn better when it comes from this guy. He's good at explaining things, so it keeps the viewers interested. Thanks champ.

Dang we did the aluminum and copper one in chemistry but I had NO IDEA it did that when you lit it on fire

Specialized killstreak fire

This was one of the most enjoyable minute of YT. No BS intro just str8 minute of fun

I'd really like to see a video on you making all the interesting kinds of flame you can produce - colors, combinations thereof, etc.

Ngl I was hoping for pink flames but that was just as cool 👏

Seriously learned how to conjure abyssal flames

Thanks for sharing! Also, that match running along the strike plate was really satisfying for some reason 😂

I remember learning abt the different colored flames in my hs chemistry 2 class. I loved learning it then and love learning more now (22 years later).

The last fire made me forced to think that "am I color blind?😅😅😂"

bro got the titanium white boost

Extremely dangerous, especially when it was used for racing because you could put the fire out quickly but you don't not know if you were still on fire until it burned you as the flames are pretty much invisible.

Thanks dad for showing me all these cool chemistry things. Thanks to you ive started loosing thru books and reading stuff online about chemistry and now im kinda into it

Damn, invisible fire. Just like on the track. Nice.

Now if I took that out of context he would be canceled